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babbling

[ bab-ling ]

noun

  1. foolish or meaningless chatter; prattle:

    the constant babbling of idle gossips.

  2. the random production of meaningless vocal sounds characteristic of infants around the age of three months.


adjective

  1. chattering or prattling aimlessly:

    The babbling crowd quieted and funneled back into the auditorium at the end of intermission.

  2. making a continuous murmuring sound:

    a babbling brook.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of babbling1

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English babelinde, bablyng; babble, -ing 1 (for the noun senses), -ing 2 (for the adjective)
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The question left Pearce reeling, babbling out a reply that his laptop had automatically switched in an incorrect address on documents he’d uploaded.

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The gang finds him holed up in a New Hampshire factory of a company Guillermo’s firm just finished gutting, babbling incoherently like Col.

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On Truth Social, he claimed it was the worst interview ever and that Harris was edited to look more presidential while she was incoherent and babbling.

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Beltway journalists have fallen into a bad habit of Trump's babbling monologues and rewriting Trump's babbling monologues so that they sound like coherent political speeches.

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Nearby Antonovich Trail, a popular trek for locals, meanders along a babbling Walnut Creek, shaded by fig, coast live oak and eucalyptus trees.

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